What did you do to your van today?

[runnach]

i have my mums auld singer in a cabinet just like this she had it for her 21st birthday so that would have been 1942 had it adapted from the treadle with an electric motor all there just not got a clue how to use it it’s got the catalogue and the tool kit with it but the walnut veneer on the fold out table is a mess it unscrews so i could send it off to be repaired some time View attachment 74654

 

[Exwindsurfer]

today went to a local clearance warehouse and got 4 rolls of off cuts all the same upholstery/curtain type material hope to make slip covers for the seats to keep maeve of the furniture, it wasn’t bad a total of 40m2 in 4 rolls for £10 the two bench side ones are easy enough but the wrap around is 6 seperate cushions i’ll have to learn to use a sewing machine lolView attachment 74653

If you want some lessons I am you man Ken lololol

Ps like you I've my mum's old machine.

 

[AlyJay]

Carried on with the TV shelf conversion from the old box thing that the TV didn't fit into, Just been doing it while having time.

 

[saxonborg]

If you want some lessons I am you man Ken lololol

Ps like you I've my mum's old machine.

First thing I ever made was a tent peg bag on my my mums old Singer , it was a tough machine as I used a bit of canvas.

 

[marchie]

First thing I ever made was a tent peg bag on my my mums old Singer , it was a tough machine as I used a bit of canvas.

Was the Singer Frank Sinatra, and this enabled you to do the bag your way?

Steve

 

[saxonborg]

Was the Singer Frank Sinatra, and this enabled you to do the bag your way?

Steve

I knew I should have put Jones.

 

[marchie]

I knew I should have put Jones.

Oh, Brother ...

I'm not so much obnoxious as just a bit of a sew and sew ...

Steve

 

[The laird]

I knew I should have put Jones.

That's so unusual , Taxi please

 

[runnach]

If you want some lessons I am you man Ken lololol

Ps like you I've my mum's old machine.

Jeff, B's relation buys up old Singer sewing machines, he has some cracking vintage ones stashed away in his basement. I did some research for him about the Singer factory in Clydebank, which at one time was the largest manufacturing factory in the world, the building clock tower, with four clock faces on each face of the tower, were larger than Big Ben clock faces.

Searching National Library of Scotland files, I came across this old B&W (no audio) archive film. Factory was an amazing place, with so many different trades within. Worth a watch.

Full record for 'BIRTH OF A SEWING MACHINE' (1592) - Moving Image Archive catalogue

 

[wildebus]

When I fitted my SNIPE2 Sat Dish I had to move a solar panel and also remove the WiFi Router Antenna. Due to the shape of the Antenna and the way the cables drop down the middle I could not fit it flush to the roof anymore so made a support platform for it.

Avtex_AMR_Antenna by David, on Flickr
Cut a piece from a old computer case lid and made 4 legs from brackets. Will fit nicely in a space between the TV Status Aerial, Solar Panel and Roof Vent.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Jeff, .............
........ Searching National Library of Scotland files, I came across this old B&W (no audio) archive film. Factory was an amazing place, with so many different trades within. Worth a watch.

Full record for 'BIRTH OF A SEWING MACHINE' (1592) - Moving Image Archive catalogue

I rarely watch something that long but in this case I found it completely fascinating. A mechanical production line, start to finish, just in time, almost no H&S protection, leading to a finished product that most families in the UK would own and be proud of.

Thank you for the link.

 

[wildebus]

If you want some lessons I am you man Ken lololol

Ps like you I've my mum's old machine.

My mum's old sewing machine was computerised and you could put punch cards in I think?

Needless to say she had not a clue how to use it and just worked it like a conventional one

 

[gasgas]

Anyone who finds themselves in Friedrichshafen in southern Germany - and you all jolly well ought to go there if you haven't been - should visit the Dornier Museum (as well as the Zeppelin museum). I was astonished to see all the things that Dornier had invented and built. Of course there are all the aeroplanes, but also a lot of other mechanical machines invented by Dornier. One such is a textile weaving machine which doubled the previous speed of weaving by having two shuttles, one at each side of the loom. the two shuttles travel from the edge of the cloth to the centre, meet in the middle and one shuttle passes the thread to the other one which then returns to its edge. It's quite amazing. Also they made a lot of punched card programmable weaving machines.
While at Friedrichshafen you can visit the Zeppelin museum and climb inside a replica of the Hindenburg to see what it was like, and there are lots of examples of the frames that they were built with showing how over the years they have made them lighter. And you can see the development of the petrol powered Mercedes Benz engines that powered them, through cut away sectioned engines.
And you can stay free of charge as long as you want under a bridge at the boundary fence of the airfield watching Zeppelins take off and land, taking fare paying passengers on a 20 minute flight. If you are quite rich you can go on a flight . . . . . .I think it was about £350 each.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichshafen​

Who put that link there? I didn't ! ! !

 

[gasgas]

Back to the thread topic I ripped out a ghastly Amazon 350A fuse holder. It has a large red LED display - but what does it display? I assumed that as it was a fuse holder it would display the Amps passing. However I now doubt that. I thought it was faulty because with no load connected it read 14.9. So I put a multimeter in series with it which read 0.036A. So I concluded that the fuse holder is drawing 36mA with no load. That must be the current drawn by the display. I should add that I used this fuse holder in line with my 3000/4000 W inverter so it has fat 4AWG wire.
Well as either the fuse holder is faulty or it isn't in which case if it is Volts I must have some jolly powerful batteries (Ok the sun was shining, I guess the solar panel was producing the volts) or it is faulty. In any case I don't want a large LED display running all the time, even if it is under a bed locker so I ripped it out and replaced it with a dumb fuse holder. I only had a fuse holder that takes two of the smaller midi fuses so I put two 100A fuses in parallel. That'll do. Until I get a pure sine wave inverter.
Enlarge the photo to see the fuse and its display.

 

[trevskoda]

Getting damp at nights here so a folded towel is placed below the windsheild with a salt bag for sucking up the moisture, seems to work well.

 

[andyjanet]

Ordered a new 802 controller as the buttons are getting hard to operate on the 801

 

[Exwindsurfer]

Ordered a new 802 controller as the buttons are getting hard to operate on the 801

What's a 802 controller Andy ?

 

[AlyJay]

What's a 802 controller Andy ?

I was wondering same

 

[wildebus]

What's a 802 controller Andy ?

update to the 801 obviously!

(the 801 is the popular Ebersapacher Heater controller. Been around for donkeys, so I suppose the 802 is a newer version?)

 

[wildebus]

New tube of Sikaflex arrived (all my tubes of adhesive have gone hard!) and so managed to finish the Antenna relocation

Place for it to go - and going to share the hole in the roof used by the solar to save making another one.

Solar Entry by David, on Flickr

Secured in place with new cable entry box with 4 wires now instead of just 2

WiFi Antenna & New Cable Box by David, on Flickr